Chapter 1590: 1587: Activity

Chapter 1590: Chapter 1587: Activity

Ye Muyu was indeed hosting this kind of event for the first time. Although it’s quite common in later years, it’s the first of its kind in Great Chu.

Chu Ziluo seldom goes out, and given her young age, Ye Muyu feared the child might get bored at home. Every time she went out, she took Chu Ziluo along, who never found it bothersome.

With this habit formed, Ye Muyu found nothing peculiar about it anymore.

But in the eyes of others, it seemed the Chu family might have some eccentric tendencies.

“Ziluo? Madam Chu?”

A voice came from behind.

Ye Muyu stopped and saw, from a distance, Huo Hongyan standing alongside Zhou Jiaojiao, the Third Miss of the Shuntian Prefecture Governor’s Family.

Chu Ziluo, seeing Huo Hongyan, smiled faintly: “Ms. Huo, Miss Zhou, are you out shopping too?”

“We ran into each other on the way. We were planning to go out and pick some gifts to give to the family’s young ones in the next few days.”

Most of these gifts were prepared before the year ended.

However, many shops have events after the New Year, so on this first day, many noble young misses enjoy joining in the excitement and curiously head out shopping.

“Hello, Madam Chu.” Huo Hongyan explained and approached with Zhou Jiaojiao, both politely greeting Ye Muyu.

Ye Muyu responded kindly, “No need to be formal.”

“Hongyan, are you all planning to continue shopping?”

“Yes. Madam, are you headed to the shops? Coincidentally, we also intend to buy some cream.” Huo Hongyan felt mostly curious about Ye Muyu, always surprised by the difference in reputation between Ye Muyu and her daughter, though aware that the Chu family were good people. Her family owed them a favor, so naturally, she wouldn’t behave rudely.

Yet upon seeing Ye Muyu, she couldn’t help but pay extra attention.

Ye Muyu noticed this and smiled at Chu Ziluo.

Chu Ziluo understood her mother’s meaning and spoke up, “Ms. Huo, Miss Zhou, why don’t we head in and take a look together? Later, I will be visiting other shops with my mother, and if there are places in common, we can go there together.”

This was a refusal to join the other young ladies on their outing.

Ye Muyu didn’t counter her daughter’s words, as she always respected her children’s choices.

Huo Hongyan understood this as well and nodded with a smile, “Alright, I was just thinking about finding you for some fun.”

Zhou Jiaojiao looked curiously at Ye Muyu and then exchanged introductions with Chu Ziluo, making acquaintances.

Ye Muyu was there to collect sales information, not to browse the shops, so she let the young ones explore on their own while she went to the counter to check the ledgers.

Huo Hongyan, along with the other two, entered and saw a spot crowded with many girls. Curious, she pulled Chu Ziluo and Zhou Jiaojiao over.

“Which kind of cream is this selling?”

“This isn’t selling a particular kind; it’s selling blind boxes. You don’t know what cream is inside, five taels of silver per box. However, the value inside is ultimately five taels, so there’s no loss. If you’re lucky, you might open and get rouge worth more than five taels,” a girl kindly explained when asked.

Huo Hongyan found it somewhat fresh.

Zhou Jiaojiao was even more intrigued, “Wow, so you wouldn’t even know which one you actually bought?”

“Of course, but the products in The Beautiful Face Shop are quite good. Some that I hadn’t used before, I tried once and found them nice.”

“And five taels isn’t much. Even if I don’t personally like using it, I can give it to someone else. Other shops don’t have as many varieties as those in the capital.”